Melchior Wieland

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Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua - tombstone.

Melchior Wieland (* around 1520 - † December 25, 1589 ), also Melchior Guilandinus ; Melchiorre Guilandino ; Melchioris Guilandini Borussi was a German doctor and botanist .

Life

Melchior began his career as a traveling herb trader in Italy. He caught the attention of the Venetian ambassador in Rome, who introduced him to wealthy patrons.

He was commissioned by the University of Padua to travel to Asia Minor and North Africa to collect plant samples. There were many such botanical expeditions at the time. He was captured by pirates and stayed as a slave in Algeria for several years. Eventually his ransom was paid by Gabriele Falloppio and he returned to Italy. In 1561 he became director of the botanical garden in Padua . There he also obtained the chair for botany.

He was one of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's numerous academic enemies.

Honor taxon

Carl von Linné named the genus Guilandina of the plant family of the Fabaceae (Fabaceae) in his honor .

Works

  • Guilandini, Melchiore (Melchior Wieland) and Johann Georg Schenck von Grafenberg Hortus Patavinus: Cui accessere… conjectanea synonimica plantarum eruditissima… Frankfurt: Mathaeus Becker, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel de Bry, 1600 [1608].

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  • Johannes Helm: The first inventory of the Botanical Garden in Padua, published in print in 1591 . In: Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 75-90.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 93
  2. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 518
personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guilandinus, Melchior; Guilandino, Melchiorre; Guilandini Borussi, Melchioris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, botanist and traveler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1589